On Wed, Jan 21, 2004 at 02:25:29PM +0000, Adam wrote: > I've installed Debian testing with gdm on an Athlon system. The Debian and > KDE sessions work (and are the same); so does "failsafe xterm", which is a > bit bare for my taste. > > Every time I try GNOME or Failsafe GNOME, I get the following error > message: > > There was an error startin the GNOME Settings Daemon. > Some things, such as themes, sounds, or background settings may not work > correctly. > The Settings Daemon restarted too many times. > The last error message was: > Failed to activate 'OAFID:GNOME_SettingsDaemon'
Last time I had this error it was due to incomplete gnome installation. It has been a while, but I think I had to install gnome-control-center. Check your error files for more info. ls .*-errors Maybe also install metacity. > Yesterday I installed wmaker and added a symlink in /etc/gdm/Sessions to > the wmaker binary. This allowed me to log in to WindowMaker, but screwed > up GNOME and KDE. Instead of symlink, revert to previous /etc/gdm/Sessions and create a file ~/.xsession that consists of #!/bin/sh exec wmaker -- Jerome
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